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I did not. So surely as I was given up as a bad carcass by the scores of things in the bed because the bulk of my blood was in my heart, so surely did I hear every stroke of a long game at billiards played in the echoing room behind the iron-barred door. Then came the ratub-a curious meal, half native and half English in composition-with the old man babbling behind my chair about dead and gone masters and the wind-blown candles playing shadow-bo-peep with the bed and the mosquito-curtains. Some of the dâk-bungalows or rest houses on the Grand Trunk Road have handy little cemeteries in their compound witnesses to the "changes and chances of this mortal life" in the days when men drove behind horses from Calcutta to the North- West. Their feet are turned backward that all sober men may recognize them. SOMEWHERE in England where there are books and pictures and plays and shop windows to look at, and thousands of men who spend their lives in building up all four, lives a gentleman who writes real stories about the real insides of people; and his name is Mr. Walter Besant.

Though there is no exact record of when the predecessors of billiard balls were created, uncovered hieroglyphics were able to show us that a game in ancient Egypt known to us today by the English "Skittles" made use of balls that were very similar to billiard balls. I applaud the companies that are withdrawing support of the Olympics, I feel terrible for the atheletes most of whom are probably not involved at all in any of that crap, and just want to show their skills, but enough is enough, it's time for the wokes and the satanists and pedophiles and loonie toonies to crawl back under their rocks and await the final judgement. We don't want to plagiarize, although a rubber-cored cricket ball is a nice idea. Neville Chamberlain, a lieutenant, wanted to modify certain things about the "black pool." The game involves one black ball and 15 red ones.

However, it had one problem; it was flammable. These and the corpse ghosts, however, are only vernacular articles and do not attack Sahibs. You may treat anything, from a Viceroy to a Vernacular Paper, with levity; but you must behave reverently toward a ghost, and particularly an Indian one. Fortunately, this intricate state of synchronisation is an attractor of the system - but it is not the only one. If only one player signified his acceptance of the exchange by holding money in his hand, he was entitled to the forfeit-money, what is billiards though the exchange was not made. Play continues until the player does not make a scoring shot. The only balls on the table are the red ball and the breaking player’s cue ball during the break shot. These balls were said to have dated sometime in 3300 B.C. It was only during the late 1950’s after World War II that billiards lost its steam because people were poverty-stricken and did not have the time and means for games anymore. How Has Billiards Evolved Over Time?

From a simple game played by the Knights of the Templar to a lawn game played by the nobles, billiards has evolved over time. Even the balls used in the game played by the Knights of the Templar were inspired by equipment that ancient civilizations used to use. While most of its ancient origins still remain a mystery, we do know where did billiards originate from. They are generally very old, always dirty, while the butler is as ancient as the bungalow. And here is a second one, bigger still, with four courtyards, a park beyond the river, a cathedral of its own, a still bigger Gothic dining-hall, rafters five hundred years old, a gallery of old portraits, still older traditions and still more famous students’ college with three names. It is courtyards, a chapel of its own, a royal hall where the students eat, a park, and I know not what else. It's a chapel-of-ease for the devil to preach in-don't tell me not to be eloquent: I don't know what you mean, Mr. Caudle, and I shall be just as eloquent as I like. From Mr. Snodder, the exciseman, who danced the original old-fashioned trois-temps, to young Bucklebury, of the Bank, who stationed himself immediately underneath the central chandelier, and spun rapidly round with his partner upon his own axis, like a couple of beetles impaled upon a single pin, every possible variation of the art of waltzing was to be observed.